My mom had cancer when she was 39 and I was 9. That is a weird way to start my about me page but I said it…and if she wasn’t in tune with her body and knew something wasn’t right, I don’t think she would be here today but thank goodness she is. She was dismissed by our family doctor but she sought a second opinion. 

In my teens and early 20s I worked as an international model. After years of restrictive eating, I ended up with gallstones and subsequent cholecystectomy at 22. I have had periods of my life with incredible skin and periods with serious bouts of cystic acne, the worst of which occurred in 2020. I always believed that what I put on my skin was the reason I had breakouts.  

For over 20 years I worked in the fast paced world of prestige cosmetics and skincare. I learned a lot about ingredients, chemistry and how the skin works. I spoke about skincare in front of crowds of sometimes 500 people and learned a lot from the clients I worked with. 

In 2010 my husband was diagnosed with Melanoma the same week he was diagnosed with psoriasis. This was a massive shock. I couldn’t understand how this happened…he wore sunscreen and even reapplied it throughout the day. That made me dig in much deeper into the world of sunscreen.

In 2018, my fit and seemingly healthy dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer, had his knee replaced then had a gallbladder attack. Because of the recent knee surgery they decided to wait for the cholecystectomy and instead my dad changed his way of eating. It wasn’t bad before but he made massive changes by way of removing processed foods from his diet and I saw first hand what that did. His blood pressure was normal and he no longer needed medication for it. At 71 years old he was on zero medication and lost the small amount of tummy weight he had been trying to shed for years unsuccessfully. 

In 2020, a lot of us were rethinking our path in life. I made the choice to go back to school and become a Holistic Nutritionist. And it was the best decision I have ever made. In 2022, I left my stable job of 15 years as a rep for a luxurious makeup company and took the chance to try something new and boy did I learn a lot! I worked as a Key Account Manager for a clean body care line and was lucky to work with some of the most prestigious retail stores across North America. I then helped launch a supplement brand into stores. And I started taking on 1:1 nutrition clients and hosting clean beauty workshops for other health practitioners.